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Anonymous Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

Comma Usage Possesion

Is it this: " Scores of disrupted minute’s silences in schools."

Or this " Scores of disrupted minutes' silences in schools."
  

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I assume you are writing a headline or title. Neither of those work. You need to reword.

  • I assume you are writing a headline or title.
  • Neither of those work.
  • You need to reword.
  • eg Minute's silence disrupted in scores of schools.
  • Clive
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I assume you are writing a headline or title. Neither of those work.
You need to reword.
eg Minute's silence disrupted in scores of schools.

Clive
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or possibly:
"Scores have observed a minute's silence in schools."
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I took the original post to mean that the minute's silence was disrupted,
eg because many students continued to talk loudly.

I think you are taking the meaning to be that the minute's silence was itself a disruption to the schools' daily routine.

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